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18. Sept. 2023 · Over a career spanning more than 40 years and nearly 50 albums, John Abercrombie established himself as one the masters of jazz guitar. Favoring unusual sounds (he played electronic mandolin on McCoy Tyner's 1993 album 4x4) and nontraditional ensembles (recent quartet recordings have included violinist Mark Feldman), Abercrombie was a restless experimenter, working firmly in the jazz tradition ...
9. Mai 2019 · 1944-2017. After a lengthy illness, jazz guitarist John Abercrombie died August 22 at a hospital outside Peekskill, New York. He was 72. Abercrombie was part of the first wave of jazz-rock, or “fusion” guitarists emerging at the end of the ’60s, notably in the horn-driven band, Dreams. He studied at the Berklee College of Music and played ...
1. Nov. 2018 · Abercrombie plays the Albion model guitar built for him by luthier Ric McCurdie. August 22, 2018, marked one year since the passing of jazz guitar great John Abercrombie (1944–2017). For many Berklee musicians, his career is a model worth emulating. While his prodigious output and substantial accomplishments didn’t bring him the larger ...
11. Juni 2015 · The quartet with Richie Beirach, George Mraz and Peter Donald – John Abercrombie’s first touring band as a leader – was the group in which the guitarist defined some priorities, moving away from a jazz-rock period into a more spacious, impressionistic and original music. Abercrombie and pianist Beirach had a strong musical rapport as improvisers and wrote almost all of the band’s book ...
23. Aug. 2017 · John Abercrombie, a touchstone in jazz-rock guitar whose first album was released in 1974, died Aug. 22, 2017. John Abercrombie, an intrepid and deeply lyrical guitarist who made a formative ...
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John Abercrombie Als Gitarrist ist Abercrombie ein Abenteurer mit ausgeprägtem Sinn für Tradition. “Die Tradition der Jazzgitarre – angefangen bei Charlie Christian über Django Reinhardt bis hin zur Gegenwart – fortzuführen, ist ein besonders wichtiger Aspekt meiner Musik”, meint er selbst.
24. Aug. 2017 · John always reminded me of the brilliant but rumpled professor or detective, ready with an acerbic comment or self-deprecating shrug, his thinning hair in a random swirl of some sort. I heard the John Abercrombie Quartet (with Richie Beirach, George Mraz, and Peter Donald) several times at The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach. One stormy Tuesday ...
